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Column: End of spring training means new beginnings — and different expectations — for Cubs and White Sox

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Opening day comes around only once a year, or twice if you’re the Cubs , who just played in Japan .

Opening-day starter Sean Burke will make his fourth major league start on his fifth major league opening day .

White Sox starter Martín Pérez insists this is a “good team,” before adding: “It doesn’t matter what people think about us”.

Will Venable is in the unenviable position of acting as the new rebuilding coordinator for a team that set the major-league record for losses in 2024 .

Venable's team enters 2025 with less experience and arguably less talent than its predecessor.

He's so low-key he makes Robin Ventura look like Ozzie Guillén , but perhaps that’s exactly what this group needs after the stormy reign of Pedro Grifol .

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